One Across, Two Down
by Ruth Rendell
Filmed as
Diary of the Dead (1976), directed by Arvin Brown.
Published by
Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.
First
published 1971.
ASIN:
0375704949
ISBN-10:
9780375704949
ISBN-13: 978-0375704949
Description:
Two things
interest Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles, and the substantial sum his wife
Vera stands to inherit when his mother-in-law dies. Otherwise, life at 61
Lanchester Road is a living hell. For Mrs. Kinaway lives with them now – and
she will stop at nothing to tear their marriage apart. One afternoon, Stanley
sets aside his crossword puzzles and changes all their lives forever...
In One
Across, Two Down, master crime writer Ruth Rendell describes a man whose
strained sanity and stained reputation transform him from a witless loser into
a killer afraid of his own shadow.
Mischievously plotted, smart, maddeningly entertaining, One Across, Two
Down is a dark delight – classic Rendell.
"The best mystery writer in the English-speaking world." – Time.